Police chief TEARS UP woke guide telling officers not to say words like 'blacklisted' in common sense win

Jonathan Ash-Edwards has ordered the removal of the document

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The document has been torn up by the PCC

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The UK’s first black Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Festus Akinbusoye called the document 'utterly mad'

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Ash-Edwards told The Telegraph: "Asking police officers and staff to use terms such as 'pregnant people' is unlikely to be seen as 'inclusive' by many women."

He revealed that in his meetings with diverse communities, "many Asian residents are worried about family gold burglaries, our Jewish communities fear anti-Semitic hate crimes. What I have yet to hear is a call for more virtue signalling,

Hertfordshire Chief Constable Andy Prophet have now "commissioned a review of all such documents".

Festus Akinbusoye, the UK's first black Police and Crime Commissioner and former PCC for Bedfordshire Constabulary, branded the guidance "utterly mad".

Akinbusoye specifically questioned why the term "whitewashing" wasn't criticised while "blacklisted", "black sheep" and "black mark" were singled out.

James Esses, a psychotherapist and campaigner who shared screenshots of the guidance on X, criticised the document.

"I think it is utter madness that in all the years we have seen the harms that this woke ideology has done, that this being sent to police officers," he said.

In response to the controversy, the three police forces issued a joint statement. They explained the guide was intended to help officers identify difference in communities and to treat the public with respect.